Things became much simpler after that. With a successful case in front, all the checkpoints in the county were opened by myself using the previous method.
It didn't take much effort, and even the number of soldiers lost was very few, only a dozen or so. However, during the Taiping years, there were not many soldiers at those checkpoints, usually only dozens or hundreds of people.
There are a total of five checkpoints in the three county towns. Except for the two more important ones, which are guarded by 200 people, the other three smaller ones are all guarded by 100 people.
Within the five checkpoints, there were about 500 surrendered soldiers. This was a huge hidden danger. In order to prevent Zhong Yu from doing so, he ordered them all to be killed.
With a tight military strength, he could not allocate too many soldiers to guard these prisoners. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble and accidents, it was better to kill them all to avoid future troubles.
In order to defend those checkpoints, Zhong Yu separated out 700 men, reducing the size of his army by a large margin. He only had 500 infantry and 100 cavalry, although those prisoners contributed 20 points of luck after being killed by him.
But it just supplemented the number of soldiers consumed by several wars before, and there was not much gain.
After a lot of traveling and killing, he had reached Changli County, the northernmost of the three counties.
This is a large county with a relatively large area, about 1.5 times that of an ordinary county. It is also located in a dangerous location and has many checkpoints. Three of the five checkpoints are within its territory.
Population? Because there are steep mountains everywhere and cultivated land is relatively scarce, most of the villagers in the county make a living by fishing and hunting.
So there aren’t too many, just 17,000 or 8,000 people! And now I am in the easternmost part of the county, which is the most majestic checkpoint, Yunguan Pass.
Yunguan guards the communication between Hanzhong County and Nanyang County. On the left is the Han River branch. Normal communication can be achieved by water transportation. If it were not for the steep cliffs at Yunguan, it is surrounded by dangerous peaks.
Zhong Yu really didn't know how to guard such a well-connected place. But it is also a masterpiece made by nature. With such a dangerous checkpoint, it is really only one man who can overcome it, and no one can break it.
As long as he places a few hundred soldiers on Yunguan, his tens of thousands of troops will not be able to attack him, and he can sit back and relax in Hanzhong.
However, it is too dangerous for such a dangerous place to be led by a county. Or put it in a separate county and separate it from Changli County.
Let’s divide the area of Changli County into the standards of an ordinary county! The extra half is divided into Yun County, although the area is smaller, only half of the normal county.
But its terrain is difficult and its transportation is developed. It can be said to be an important military town, so it is not too much trouble.
Now that it has been decided to divide it into a county, then I still need to conquer the surrounding fifty miles and divide it into Yun County.
The army went out for the expedition, and there were many heads of people along the way. The continuous bloodshed and killings used countless corpses to form the foundation of their rule in Yun County.
In just one day, I sorted out the surrounding area of Yun County, which is a remote and remote area.
Since there was relatively little cultivated land around, and the gentry relied on farming and studying to pass down their families, the number of gentry was relatively small, with only three families.
Zhong Yu's troops, who had experience in cleaning up aristocratic families, completed the task very quickly. All the aristocratic families combined only have more than 1,000 members.
It's only twice the size of your own army, and killing people is no better than killing pigs. People are often waiting to be killed, and they don't even need to do it themselves.
They will kill each other, and killing people is much easier than killing pigs. An adult only needs to lightly touch the vital points on the neck, but to kill a pig, you have to use a lot of force and chop several times to kill it.
All in all, it was very easy. Without much resistance, the entire Yun County was pacified and Yun County was successfully established.
Killing those people earned another 40 luck points, and summoned eighty soldiers. His own ordinary soldiers successfully expanded to 600 people.
He took 100 cavalry and 600 infantry to Changli County. Although the number of people is a bit small, it is barely enough to take over the city by oneself.
Eight days later, Zhong Yu pacified Changli County, Xunyang County, Xin County, and Wuling County. He killed 5,000 nobles in the four counties and gained 200 luck points, and his footsteps stopped there.
I plan to rest for a few days, wait until this month has passed and get the luck points, and then continue the expedition.
Use two hundred luck points to exchange for four hundred soldiers, and the soldiers exchanged will be stationed in two counties, with two hundred people in each county.
The newly built Yun County is located in a dangerous location. It can be said that it is its gateway to the northeast and must be guarded by heavy troops. Therefore, Zhong Yu left 500 people behind in case of emergency, he could send troops to support Yunguan.
He took the remaining 100 cavalry and 100 ordinary soldiers to Xicheng County and stationed himself there. When the luck points arrive, you can directly redeem them for troops, saving you from having to rush to this place from behind.
With time to rest, Zhong Yu carefully planned the division of his territory again.
There are only four counties in Fangling County, which is too small. It is better to divide Changli County and Yun County into it, so that Fangling County has six counties, which can barely be regarded as a medium-sized county, with a population of 80,000.
However, Xicheng County was too vast and had the territory of three or four counties, which was not conducive to management, so it was divided into three counties.
They are Shiquan County, Ankang County, Jinchuan County, plus the original Xunyang County, Xing County, and Wuling County. A total of six counties are being built into Xicheng County, with a population of about 70,000.
According to the division of the system, a county governs 3 to 7 townships, a county governs 3 to 7 counties, a prefecture governs 3 to 7 counties, a prefecture governs 3 to 7 prefectures, and a road governs 3 to 7 prefectures. A domain governs 3 to 7 channels.
The size of the country corresponds to the division of counties above it according to the size of the territory. They are the male kingdom at the county level, the sub-state at the county level, the uncle state at the prefecture level, the hou state at the state level, the principality at the Dao level, and the kingdom at the domain level.
Now that he already has the territory of two counties, plus there are six counties in Hanzhong, which can also be divided into one county, then he has become a prince with three counties, which is barely considered the smallest. level country.
It's coming soon. It will be a month after tomorrow. The total population in our territory is about 150,000. You can also get 600 luck points in a month, which can be used to summon soldiers who can get 1,200.
By then, he would have 1,400 soldiers ready to go on an expedition. Hanzhong County was governed by Nanzheng County, which was the center of Hanzhong County and had the largest number of nobles. If he kills him himself, he will have to kill at least 20,000 people. Then he will have 800 luck points and 1,600 soldiers.
Based on this calculation, I have about three thousand energy that can be used to pacify six counties, which is more than enough.
Time passed slowly, and one day had passed in the blink of an eye. He also gained 600 of his luck points. Without any hesitation, Zhong Yu used all of them to exchange for soldiers.
As for the management of the territory of the two counties under him, it can be solved after the entire Hanzhong County is occupied by himself.
When the sun rose again, Zhong Yu led his 1,400 soldiers and slowly marched towards Chenggu County, the gateway to the east of Nanzheng County.
(End of chapter)